Sentence examples for existential desperation from inspiring English sources
You do get a sense of almost existential desperation.
His stories do not smell of the lamp, of overwrought study, but of a genuine existential desperation.
That sense of existential and economic desperation carries across all his plays.
Indelible Acts is a quiet-seeming collection, focused on "the terrible malleability of words" and calm in its study of people in varying existential states of desperation, usually to do with love.
There's a restlessness, an unease, a desperation, an existential panic.
While her existential malaise contains moments of desperation, there are fabulously zingy one-liners alongside it.
His inability to secure more than bit parts provokes financial desperation and an existential crisis.
Bakanova brought a no doubt partly adrenaline-fuelled dramatic intensity to the part and embodied the desperation, dramatic extremity, and existential plight of Violetta more completely than any other performance I have seen.
It seemed an odd comparison to make, since Lev's isolation is explicitly geographic and cultural, driven by economic desperation, while Hamlet's is composed of existential anguish about family, love and death.
Organized around the Hollywood stories and the quotations from films, there's a cursory career arc: the troubled childhood, the desperation, the stints in radio, the stardom, the excess, the collapse, the existential crisis and the inevitable challenge of walking off the stage.
